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Thread: Locality Pits

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    Locality Pits

    This being a ball python site, we see a constant ever-changing parade of new morphs being trotted out and shown off.

    While I appreciate the genetic variety in ball pythons, I also am a big fan of the natural locality variants that pituophis display.

    I'm hoping that in this thread we can discuss and even show off our locality pits.

    I'm bad about taking pictures, but promise to show off some of my snakes in the next day or two.

    Currently, I have some locality Sayi from an isolated location outside of Fort Collins Colorado that stay around 3 to 4 feet long when completely full grown with a correspondingly smaller girth:

    Here's what they look like as babies:


    And an adult in comparison with a locality adult bull snake from Kansas of the same age:


    I am also keeping some beautiful Northern Pines from Ocean County New Jersey. I'll upload some pics later. These develop a glorious yellow coloration and reduced pattern as they age.

    One of my favorite pits are Ruthveni or Louisiana pines - which may be the rarest snake in North America.

    A pic of my female when she was younger.



    I was very careful to get my Lineaticollis from a collector who can trace his lines back to one location - Puebla Mexico:

    My male as a baby:


    Now in his second year, his main color has lightened up considerably. New photos to follow.

    For some animals that I have no current pictures of:

    I have some locality Jani - and some Deserticola from South Eastern California.

    The Deserticola are known, like Sayi for varying from locality to locality. The ones I have have an almost reduced pattern - again, I'll post pictures as I take them.

    There are bullsnakes from Wisconsin that have wonderful shades of green and Kankakee bulls that are almost maroon. Some localities of Northern Pines develop a wonderful brick red color, and even here in Northern California, there is a variance in Catenifer that changes from county to county.

    Anyway, while Pits aren't as exciting as some other snakes, I love the natural variations. It would be nice to see more people sharing pics of their pits - locality or otherwise.
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    Re: Locality Pits



    From outside Fountain, Colorado. I'm really liking the color of this guy over the more normal brownish ones, and I've found several who have this red patterning.

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    not sure how i missed this thread!

    I too like the natural variants of Pits in some species. I prefer the morphs of bulls but for all others tend to like locally specific. I don't own any yet but I really like jani and deppei.

    The only animals I have that could be considered locally specific are my lineaticollis and my black pines. Even my capes are morphs.

    Can't wait to see the pictures of your jani and deserticola. Interesting thread for sure.

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    Re: Locality Pits

    Locality Deserticola:




    Last year's jani babies:



    and one of my male thrasops (not a pit but on the same film roll):


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    Re: Locality Pits

    Very nice Skiploder. I can certainly appreciate the beauty of these snakes as much as I can a beautiful ball python morph.
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    Re: Locality Pits

    Quote Originally Posted by ballpythonluvr View Post
    Very nice Skiploder. I can certainly appreciate the beauty of these snakes as much as I can a beautiful ball python morph.

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    im loving the Deserticola!!

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    I have been admiring those guys for several years but it's only recently that I took the plunge and I am just loving it.

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    And my favorite girl, a red bull

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